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You guys are buying shows and movies?
Well, I want them to keep making shows and movies after all...
Well, an EU study a few years back found that online piracy has little affect on actual legal sales, except for newly released movies which took like a 4.4% knock on their box-office sales.
Games apparently see an increase in sales, with 100 illegal downloads spurring 24 additional legal transactions than would have otherwise occurred.
Here's a link to the study itself for anyone interested in getting into the weeds.
That said, I support studios/musicians/devs that I care about by buying their stuff.
I refuse to subscribe to the 10+ mainstream streaming services, though. I’m voting with my money, and the current streaming landscape is just as anti-consumer as cable TV was before it.
The games stat is because they stopped making demos, so people pirate the game to see if it’s worth spending money on
Literally this. And buying content outright actually sends money to the people who made the show, unlike watching it on streaming.
If the recent strike is any indication, the creators see none of this money.
This is probably true, but it at least tells the people that run the studios that the people involved in that movie are profitable and should keep making movies.
The creators see money from cable residuals and digital and physical purchases but that's it
Okay, but what if you don’t have cable because it’s a massive rip off full of ads despite costing a fortune, or buy physical media?
I Pirate because of all the hoops that I have to jump through in order to access media. And even then, if you choose to legally stream etc then the creators are still getting fucked over while execs make fucking BANK. So no thanks, fuck that.